… The SR pathway was initiated by telephone contact from the patient, followed by a subsequent
telephone triage appointment with one of three senior physiotherapists. The purpose of …

… Musculoskeletal triage is conducted via face-to-face consultation, paper referral letter or
telephone consultation… be for GPs to triage directly to an orthopaedic outpatient list. Clinical …

… increase waiting times in the physiotherapy outpatient department. In some geographical …
, many MSK outpatients’ physiotherapy providers have implemented a telephone triage and …

… typically initiated at telephone contact from the patient via a telephone triage appointment, …
likely to be adequately addressed through phone consultation, thus preventing further face-…

… physiotherapy-led telephone triage of new patients on the orthopedic outpatient waiting
list … Citation16 The physiotherapist had a relevant masters degree in musculoskeletal …

… all healthcare services, it is unlikely that, without a major reconfiguration of traditional practice,
the growing demand for musculoskeletal outpatient consultations will be adequately met. …

… use of serologic screening for undifferentiated musculoskeletal complaints. Based on the
information provided in the referring letter, our triage tool yielded a sensitivity of only 59%, …

… The NCPR and the NCPTOS implemented a novel musculoskeletal (MSK) physiotherapy
triage initiative to reduce the Orthopaedic and Rheumatology outpatient waiting lists in Ireland. …

… of triage, the procedure of assessment and management, and measures of outcomes in
orthopaedic musculoskeletal triage, to ensure best practices and outcomes for triage clinics [9]. …

… musculoskeletal tumours is the complexity and variability of presentation. We offer a triage
model, used in a quaternary-referral musculoskeletal … were set to guide our outpatient service: …